The Vision Quest has Native American origins in its dispatching of young people into the wilderness to fast and empty themselves in hopes of acquiring a supernatural or spiritual vision that will guide them in their lives. A Vision Quest is perhaps the best of all material spiritual practices, because it requires one to shed vs. add to self, to empty vs. fill, to eschew vs. embrace. The Vision Quest requires one to fast from food and perhaps water and all other material amenities to determine what arises from within or without.
Some years ago I had a remarkable dream. In it I was a raindrop tumbling from a great, gray cloud and I felt ecstatically free the way one can in flying dreams. Then, suddenly, the clouds parted and below me stretched a vast and…
